In my Visual Poetics course this January, the students and I explored the intersection between poetry and visual art, including a unit on ekphrasis (a verbal representation of a visual representation). Using

Art + Conversation: Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making 1948–1960
Watch Elizabeth Finch and Marshall N. Price, co-curators of Roy Lichtenstein: History in the Making, 1948-1960 discuss the little-known early career of the Pop art legend and their collaborative work on

Man with a Flowered Coat: Once Nameless, Now Known
Editor’s note: close looking by Matthew Brown ’24 led to new, or rediscovered, associations between a portrait in the Colby Museum’s collection and several others in museums worldwide. The visual connections Brown

Art + Conversation: Another World is Possible
Watch Elizabeth Jabar, inaugural Director of Civic Engagement and Community Partnerships at Colby College, and co-founder of Hinge Collaborative, and Olivia Fountain, Anne Lunder Leland Curatorial Fellow at Colby College

Unseen Violence in Judy Glickman Lauder’s Photography
Content warning: this article is about the Holocaust and photographic documentation of the Holocaust.
Content warning: this article is about the Holocaust and photographic documentation of the Holocaust. Judy Glickman Lauder, whose photographic career began in the 1970s, is best known for her

The Sea in a Jug: Selected Labels from the Colby course “Reading Images”
The students in AR 101W: Reading Images have each spent the semester studying a single work of art in the Sea in a Jug exhibition. These labels are condensed versions of their visual analysis
Spotlight on Empire: Guiding Questions
We have selected a group of featured images and assembled a list of prompts to help spark your thinking around our theme of “Empire.” Keep in mind that none of

Spotlight on Empire
This academic year, The Lantern will feature a series of articles related to the spotlight theme of “Empire.” These will accompany a slate of exhibitions and programs at

Art + Conversation with Kifah Abdulla
This virtual program offers a glimpse into calligraphy, one of the art forms featured in the exhibition, The Sea in a Jug: The Welch Collection of Islamic and Later Indian

Art of Empire
Anti-racist protests across the globe have precipitated the long overdue removal of many public monuments in recent weeks. For over a decade, the British artist Hew Locke has interrogated Victorian